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Published inOct 2023
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Gareth Eagar
Gareth Eagar
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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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Ingesting and preparing data from a variety of sources

Amazon QuickSight can use other AWS services as a source, as well as on-premises databases, imported files, and even some Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

For example, you can easily connect to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, and MySQL databases, either running as part of the Amazon RDS managed database service, or as instances running on Amazon EC2 or in your own data centers. You can also connect to data warehouse systems such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and Teradata. Other AWS services are also supported as data sources, including Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora, and AWS IoT Analytics.

In addition to these traditional data sources, QuickSight can also connect to various SaaS offerings, including ServiceNow, Jira, Adobe Analytics, Salesforce, GitHub, and Twitter.

Data stored in files, such as a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX files), JSON documents, and CSV...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614426

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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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